What's the scariest thing that has ever happened at your field? Mine was probably when a rental was playing airball and a gun shot at him. The first shot hit him dead center of the mask, second and third shot hit the side of his mask making it spin, the fourth fifth and a few more shots spun his mask so far around that his face was fully exposed. Lucky for him a ref was right next to him and dove on him almost immediately. Now go!

Last sunday this guy borrowed a pair of proflexes and it had a visor on it. He was playing snake and popped up to peak inside, as soon as he came back down the visor caught on the snake and pulled his mask off. He was the only one left and there were two guys already running to bunker him. About 3 people jumped over him to protect him and took the shots that wouldve bunkered him.

A rental who took off his mask mid-firefight (he was with a rental group that the majority of did not speak English, so the refs had a good amount of problems with them through out the day because of the language barrier), and sprinted into a nearby 2 story building and continued to play for a good minute until the refs caught up to him. I think the refs sat all of them down a good 20 minutes to re-explain the mask rule.

Wait, i remember something. There was a fight because one guy said some guy was hit (he was) but he didn't want to go out. After about 45 seconds of yelling, they started a fist fight. The guy who got hit and started the fight was kicked out, the guy who was trying to play fair stayed.

This gaggle of fucks who walked onto the field, and five seconds before game on took off their masks. Head ref kicked them out because this was the third time they'd done it.

Adding to this problem was that this group took a detour on their way off the field. How did we know that? A certain odor that comes from the burning of a certain illegal plant came wafting through the trees back towards us. Game was postponed even longer so the field owner could personally escort the fuckers off of the property.

once at my field one of the staff got his ego 8 and it wouldn't fire correctly so we were just chillin out trying to figure out what was wrong. took off the hopper and the tank. but as you know the regs still held pressure. turns out that the bolt pin was popped up a little and before he came out it had manged to push a ball into the bore without firing it. so turns the eyes off and pulls the trigger. BANG!!! the shot hit the counter 2 inches from the edge of where i was standing and splattered all over me going 280 fps in the safety are with no mask on... lucky it didnt hit me but i did get a near heart attack and a free pod out of it...

Back about a year or so ago, I was talking to the guy behind the counter at my local indoor field. A guy comes out of the field, and this is the conversation.

Player: Hey, I think someone is shooting hot out there..
Worker: Oh yeah?
Player: Yeah, I got shot in my mask once and it flew off. My mask is on pretty tight too..

My face:

Also, at my first big game ever I took a risky run and bumped up to a hole (about 5 feet deep, 4ish feet wide.) the guy must have had an apex because they were curving down quite a bit. Anyway, I was in the hole and took a hit to the top of my I4s, and the paintball pretty much pushed my I4's down. I drop my gun and held my mask up, re adjusted and called myself out.

If you see someone pulling that here hit the report button and I'll teabag them =)

two rentals side by side, walking off the field to the staging area. Didn't have their socks on. One of the guys at my table yells barrel socks and the two morons point the guns up in a "WHUT?" manner, they had their fingers around the triggers. Owner sprints over yells at them and then they point the gun eye level and it still looks like these kids are squeezing the trigger to all of us as they are one handing it. Long story short my eyes saw their optics flash before there lives.

My friend got shy in the eye and had to get a retina transplant. He wantedto join the coustguard... But he couldn't because of the retina transplant. Which sucked for him because he didn't have a plan B.

I heard there was a dispute once and someone was trying to drive away the other was standing in front of the car. The person got ran over, then the driver got hit with the tank of a gun to the head, I wish I was there =)

One time a long time ago i was wearing a save face mask, and i got shot in the lense and it popped out than took a ball to the forhead just above my eye, god saved me that day may have been one of the scariest things thats ever happened at my feild.

My teammate eli was borrowing a proto reflex rail from our fields proshop and as we are walking out he's playing with the gun and it has the barrel bag on. I hear the loudest shot of my life and the side of my face and my right eye get splattered in paint and the barrel bag flies off. I came SO close to losing an eye or taking a paintball to side of my face. I asked him what the fuc happened and he said, "I'm notused to the pretty new board." god damn I love this kid

SLIPPERY WEASEL

Wolfwood "but really, when you get older, one of the best things in life is a really good shit. Makes life worth living."

sitting in the pits watching someone walking around with a geared-up marker (tank, loader, paint) pointed it directly at my face and having the nerve to tell "Oh it's off", or "oh, the loader is off" or "Don't worry, it's not aired up"

Usually my response is "Mother fucker I didn't as you if it was off, or aired up, or if the loader was off. I asked you to put the barrel sock on it"

I understand some people might be born with hearing problems, but on what planet does "Put your barrel sock on please!" sound like "Hey, is your loader turned on?"

When I get a fucking moronic response like that, that's usually when you see me stand up. Most people's attitude quickly goes into the toilet when a 6'4" 220 pound guy stands up and tells them "I'm not asking you again, quit pointing that marker at my face and put on your barrel sock, or I'll put one on for you..."

There was a private party that I was reffing ad one guy got pissed at his friend for a few extra shots. The argument went into the staging area where the angry guy pointed the marker straight at the other guy's face and pulled the trigger.

Luckly it was a vibe and was off, so nobody got shot, but we did kick them out and they were pretty pissed that they were not refunded.

The most scary time of my life though was having a party of 14 10 year olds play.

About a month or so ago I was having a battle with some kid who was about 15 feet away when I see 2 of the adults come running into the game from the sidelines with no mask on. I waved to the kid to let me out since I ref there and was like wtf is going on. I look to where there running and a friend of mine who is about 40 or so is on the ground and some guy is hitting him. The other adults tackle him and at this point everyones mask is off so im trying to call the game and get over there to stop this bullshit. Im still a little confused over the he said she said bullshit but it goes something like this. The guy I did not know got shot in his feedneck which is really hard to see. He shot at my friend and hit him a good bit so as hes walking off he tells the ref in a polite way hey you gotta watch those hits I hit him and he just kept shooting me. The guy gets up and was like "You talking shit?" that guy is about 25 and was on a bit of the juice. Then some how fists start flying and I go over there and try to sort this shit out. There both walking off yelling and I just yelled "End it now!" which has turned into a joke because im 18 and about weigh about 133 and told all these big ass people to calm down XD. I walked over to the roid rage guy to see what he thinks happened while someone went to get the owner and I swear I thought he was going to knock me out for trying to figure out the story. Was quite a event but everyone told me I did a good job for spilting them up after they got off the field. The roid rage guy was in the wrong since everyone on the sidelines told me he hit my friend for no damn reason other then he told the ref he got that guy out. He also refs there so it was no big deal about him telling the younger ref to watch out for something.

i went to bunker an rental (hand tag was the original plan) but my gun was up from habit. he also decides to turn that corner the same moment i am running past his bunker and my barrel knocked his mask off. as i fell my marker went off and it flew right past his head. i then dropped my gun and smothered him and signaled a ref. scared the shit out of me, thought i blinded someone

I split my vote, half for etekgirl's body, half for her mind, because I respect a woman's mind just as much as her cans.*Waits to get hit*

Getting shot on the Top side of my head from like 3 feet chronoing at 300. It felt like a giant bolder has struck my head and had me dazed for a cool minuete. Then I told him you idiot that's to close and his response "I can't control my aim". Facepalm

Just because you own a high end marker and gear dosen't mean your good...

Had a ball come through the netting and hit me in the lower part of my eye socket I still dont remember screaming

Stop worrying about how you look, and start worrying about how you play. Get out on the field and play paintball the best you can, not stand at home in front of a mirror trying to figure out if your jersey matches your eyes.

Just remembered: I was at Sports Authority getting some co2 tanks filled and apparently the guy who did the filling overfilled one of the 9oz tanks and froze the valve shut so it couldn't vent right away... So, I put the 9oz tank in my coat pocket and start heading toward the front of the store to check out, when all of a sudden the tank starts blowing off all of its contents! I carefully knocked the now-venting tank out of my pocket, and it went spinning and sliding all over the floor. By the time it was done venting, everyone in the store had come over to see wtf I was doing...

Using a gun that's been hardly maintained and tossed from person to person more than a village whore is hardly a fair way to compare the marker.

Playing at my local field last season, we were playing a recball game. I play ball on a military base in California, but it allows civilians on base to play with out any trouble. Group of kids showed up, about 15-17, geared up some pump markers. One of them was wayyyy over dressed for the middle of July in California. I am watching the kid as I creep over a hill, ready to take a shot on him. I pull the trigger, and I see him get hit, and he fell over, like dead. At first I was confused, but when he didn't get up, I got worried. I ran down the hill, yelling for the ref, and made it to him quickly. He had passed out from heat stroke. Ended up having to dig my knife out of my gear bag, and ran back, cutting his sweat shirt and vest off, the game ended, and kept him cool and shaded. He was breathing really shallow, he was bright red and we were trying to keep him cool. Someone brought some towels over, kept him in the shade, I kept dousing him with water on his chest (room temperature to start, then colder as we could), and someone called 911. Paramedics showed up, kid still wasn't breathing right, and took him away. Last I heard was that it wasn't looking good, rumors had it that he died though, and I know the field was closed for a few weeks after that.

Scariest moment of my paintball life, seeing him drop like a ton of bricks, and not move, and no one seemed to notice. Thank god I was there, as well as a couple of Navy Corpsmen who were there for the day.

Guy I know brought his newer X7 that they had been using in his backyard (no chrono). Guys said it HURT when he shot them.

I chrono'd it (like I do every gun at every event at my private field) and it was shooting 530...

I didn't know a paintball gun could even go that high... Highest I had ever seen was 450.

No wonder it hurt when he shot them! Crazy. I can't believe people play without chronoing.

New guy got shot in the eyeball last year... Took his mask off to wipe the fog out when he was out... Someone from the other side of the field shot at someone and it came all the way across the field and hit him right in the eyeball.

That was a scary time. He was blind for the day, and as the blood and swelling went down his eyesight started coming back. He had to have surgery but is doing well now. He knew he should take off his mask, as I go over that rule very strictly at every event, but thought "it was only for a second"...

one time my friend invited me for a outing at my local field splatter park which is really 30 min away in the middle of nowhere but any ways there is a group of call of duty players in the corner of the field going well i sniped u so beat that then they started to walk to the middle of the field and these 11 year olds decided to have a fight over who is a better call of duty player in the middle of the field they put up their tiny fists rip off there masks and have some sort of sissy fight thank god the refs there know what they were doing because they were right in the middle of a firefight. it is so stupid that some 11 year old with a birthday gun and a video game thinks they are all that shit.

A C02 tank burst and flew into a woman's face in the staging area, breaking her right cheekbone.

Similar story to mine

Way back in 98 there was a feild near me (small hyperball only) that had a trailer for the checkins and rentals. Not sure how it happened as I was out playing but the filling station neck broke... aka a scuba tank sized missle flew out the side of the trailer...

I'll never forget the noise as it tore through the trailer like it was paper

I remember my sister's boyfriend was telling me the first time he went paintballing he borrowed a friends gun. His friend had tinkered around with the gun earlier, but hadn't set it back to the normal FPS, and gave my sisters boyfriend the gun not telling him about chronographing before you play. I guess he used it out on the woodsball field shooting like 375 FPS, and ended up leaving bloody welts on everyone he played against (the refs caught him eventually and figured out he was new and didn't know how to chrono).

one time my friend invited me for a outing at my local field splatter park which is really 30 min away in the middle of nowhere but any ways there is a group of call of duty players in the corner of the field going well i sniped u so beat that then they started to walk to the middle of the field and these 11 year olds decided to have a fight over who is a better call of duty player in the middle of the field they put up their tiny fists rip off there masks and have some sort of sissy fight thank god the refs there know what they were doing because they were right in the middle of a firefight. it is so stupid that some 11 year old with a birthday gun and a video game thinks they are all that shit.

punctuation is your friend.

One field I play at is semi only, and these two guys had virtued minis that were ramping about 20 bps in the chromo area. The refs tell em it's semi only and that they need top change it before the game. Well, they didnt, and were uber balling renters three first game they played. They were told again to change it, and got pissed and started fighting with the refs. They sent the to the front to talk the owner, and the ref sent me to follow since I'm a regular. When I get there these two teens are in the face of a fifty something year old man (the owner) screaming at him. I tolf them they better quit, and they said what was I gonna do. I told them my gun was still on and theirs weren't. They mumbled under their breath the whole time they are packing up

LOL top this! i was practicing a new layout with my team trying to prepare better for for nationals, so we went to another field in the same city thats a lot more busy, so we could play with a lot of other teams, so were playing this team and we just wreck them in like 30 seconds and the last one left alie was this 15yo brat, that just because he caught a few to the googles starts insulting one of my teammates (the guy is like 6,3 and like 270lbs) and the kid says some really offensive shit, since he is a minor my teammate could do nothing then tell the kid to shut up and stop being disrespectfull, he repeated himself about 5 times before just got so pissed he pushed the kid by his googles (to get him out of the way and leave the field)so when he does that the little brats bodyguard entered and was about to pull his gun on my teammate, it doesnt end there! another bodyguard who is friends with my teammate also got in the field and pulled his gun on the 1st bodyguard!!!

shit was so crazy! good thing the situation was defused without anyone getting shot.

LOL top this! i was practicing a new layout with my team trying to prepare better for for nationals, so we went to another field in the same city thats a lot more busy, so we could play with a lot of other teams, so were playing this team and we just wreck them in like 30 seconds and the last one left alie was this 15yo brat, that just because he caught a few to the googles starts insulting one of my teammates (the guy is like 6,3 and like 270lbs) and the kid says some really offensive shit, since he is a minor my teammate could do nothing then tell the kid to shut up and stop being disrespectfull, he repeated himself about 5 times before just got so pissed he pushed the kid by his googles (to get him out of the way and leave the field)so when he does that the little brats bodyguard entered and was about to pull his gun on my teammate, it doesnt end there! another bodyguard who is friends with my teammate also got in the field and pulled his gun on the 1st bodyguard!!!

shit was so crazy! good thing the situation was defused without anyone getting shot.

LOL top this! i was practicing a new layout with my team trying to prepare better for for nationals, so we went to another field in the same city thats a lot more busy, so we could play with a lot of other teams, so were playing this team and we just wreck them in like 30 seconds and the last one left alie was this 15yo brat, that just because he caught a few to the googles starts insulting one of my teammates (the guy is like 6,3 and like 270lbs) and the kid says some really offensive shit, since he is a minor my teammate could do nothing then tell the kid to shut up and stop being disrespectfull, he repeated himself about 5 times before just got so pissed he pushed the kid by his googles (to get him out of the way and leave the field)so when he does that the little brats bodyguard entered and was about to pull his gun on my teammate, it doesnt end there! another bodyguard who is friends with my teammate also got in the field and pulled his gun on the 1st bodyguard!!!

shit was so crazy! good thing the situation was defused without anyone getting shot.

About a year ago I was playing at my field and it was a woodsball field, so in the middle of a firefight we see a group of kids walk out of the brush with no mask or nothing and we had to stop the game but before we did we found out they were kids from the neighborhood next to the field.